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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-30
Gould and Garrett.
ducerS.

New YORK, July 24.-Unless all
signs fail, Jay Gould will soon be the
owner of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road, and of the telegraph system of
the same name. By the purchase Of
the first Mr.. Gould will have New
York terminus for his Western and
Southern systems of railways, and in
few years from now he will have
his roads all leading to Staten Island,
A lease for ninety-nine years of the
Staten Island Rapid Transit road
goes with the sale of the Baltimore
& Ohio; and Gould will find way
to bridge the Arthur Kill, which
project the New Jersey Legislature
is fighting hard to defeat. Gould has
never ceased to desire road leading
into New York since he lost control
of the Erie. He was compelled by
that to begin to build from the West
eastward, and the sale now posi-
lively concluded and soon to be an
nounced completes the labor of years
Of specializing and manipulating,
ends it for the present, but not for
ever. When Gould is once lodged
on Staten Island he will want to
bridge or tunnel the Narrows and
make the extreme end of Long Island
his eastern terminus and then he
will probably bridge the Atlantic
with the swiftest of steamers, and
carry passengers from Liverpool to
San Francisco with but single
change from the steamers to the cars.
A friend of Garrett's who was in
his company during most of the time
spent by Garrett in this city, said to-
day that Ives & Co., would be treated
by Mr.. Garrett the same as any other
contracting parties would. They had
made contract and failed TO keep it.
Mr.. Garrett, he says, will not sell his
stock to them now on any terms and
of the payments made Mr.. Garrett
will keep all that he has title to.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-30

Gratis have now had control of the
national administration it is safe to
say that there has been searching
inquiry instituted into the facts as
regards the management of their
predecessors in Office. Not only has
nothing of importance been found to
justify the charges of dishonesty, or
even carelessness, in the management
of these offices, but there has been a
surprising exhibit of integrity, when
the amount of property involved and
the temptation connected with it are
considered. The Democrats, with
every inducement to find lack of
fidelity and capacity here, with the
stimulus even of the places for them
selves as the direct result of such de-
tection-haVe very little to show to
the discredit of the Republican rec
ord in office. The Republican party
is entitled to praise for this, and it is
praise which all but partisans will be
ready to accord.
The rascals have not been turned
out because there were no rascaIs to
turn out. The Democrats. instead of
finding rascality in all lines of adj
ministration, as they had predicted,
have been obliged to invent excuses
for change, or fall back upon the
equalizing of the offices as their jasff-
fication for displacements. q
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-30
Railway Track-Laying this Year.

Our records, which are based on a
very thorough and continuous exam
lnation of the entire field, with the
Kind cooperation of the chief engi-
neers and other railway officers, now
show that between January l and
June 30 there were laid in the United
States little over $3.50 miles of new
mainline tracks, besides several hum
dred lines of sidings, etc., which are
not taken into account. This is an
addition of ,403 miles since our state
ment for June Ia very large in
crease for single months report.
This is far larger showing
of new construction than that for the
CORRESPONDING period in any previous
year, excepting 1882, when nearly
5000 miles were laid down in the
first six months and IL 1868 in the
year. The nearest approach to this
was in 1881, when about $500 miles
were reported in the first six months
out of 9,796 for the year. But in 1886
the returns gave for the first half
only 1,755 miles, while the work of
the year, according to our corrected
record. was about $500 miles.
We feel safe in predicting that the
total new mileage laid down in 1887
will not be less than 10000 miles,
with the likelihood of considerably
exceeding that, and perhaps surpass-
ing the record of the year of greatest
railway construction in the history
of the country, 1882. Of the 1876 lines
not companies-covered by the
table, eighty five, or 81 per cent. are
still in coarse of extension, while
track. laying is about to begin on a
large number of other lines not in
cluded in the list. Several of the
great railway companies will each
lay hundreds of miles of additional
track before the year ends. Among
them may be named the st. Paul,
Minneapolis and Manitoba, which
promises to add about 700 miles to
the 300 miles or more which it has
put down since January / the Atch-
ison, Topeka and Santa Fe, whose
Kansas City line alone will add about
$50 miles before the year closes, while
its various extensions in Illinois.
Missouri, Kansas. Colorado, Texas
and California will probably..require
700 or 800 miles more to be laid in
the next six months, and the Mis-
souri, Pacific, Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific, Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul, Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, and several other great sys.
TENS which each has hundreds OF
miles in process of construction
Chicago RailDoy Age.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-30
Half a Million Immigrants.

WASHINGTON, July 25.-The re.
port of the Bureau of Statistics on
immigration during the year ending
June 80, 1887, shows some interest
ing facts concerning the growth of
our alien population. 1t appears that
the total immigration during the past
twelve months has been 1915,
against 3lS,S95 during the last fiscal
year. or an increase of about fifty per
cent. This is much greater increase
even than was anticipated earlier in
the season. 1t is most noticeable in
the case of the Italians. the immi-
grants from Italy having been q SOB
in 1886, and Al, 1924 in 1887, a larger
increase relatively than any other
nationality is credited with. The
Germans proper show only a slight
increase, while the Austrians have
almost doubled. The immigrants
from Ireland were 68,13O as against
29,f96 in 1886. The increase in Eng.
lish and Welsh immigration is larger,
amounting to nearly fifty per cent.
The Scandinavian immigration is
also increasing rapidly. the figures
being 5S.741, and 1858 for the pre-
vious twelve months. OF the total
immigration 376.005, or more than
three-quarters, entered at the port of
New York. Boston came next with
,209. Baltimore received about the
same number, and Philadelphia stood
fourth, 81, 05S.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-30
Horrible Mine Disaster.

WILKEsBARRE, Pa, July 3d.
Another terrible disaster occurred at
7 O'Clock this morning IN the fatal
No. Slope of the Susquehanna Coal
Company, at Nanticoke, whereby
three lives were probably sacrificed.
Anthony Broski, George Phillips and
Edward Lorber were engaged in a
chamber driving heading. They
used safety lamps. Broski inserted
lot of giant powder into hole he
had drilled and fred it. The blast
exploded an accumulation of fire.
damp that knocked the three men
against the ragged sides of the cham
Der, mutiIating their bodies in hor-
manner and burning them fright
fully. Mine boss David Evans and
fire boss Henry Jones were the only
men in that part of the mine, and
though 40 yards away, they were
knocked down by the conclusion and
hurt but not seriously. The latter
gave an immediate alarm and many
miners rushed to the rescue of the in
jured men in the chamber beyond.
When carried to the surface the
blackened flesh of the three unfortun-
ate miners hung in strips from their
bodies, their clothing having been
completely torn off. Broski was TAX
en- to his home where he died an hour
afterward, surrounded by his weep
ing wife and three children.
Phillips and Lorber were also con-
veyed to their homes. and their in
juries are pronounced fatal, Four of
Lorber's brot hers were killed in
in the great disaster in December,
1885, and are numbered among the
26 whose bones still lie entombed in
the fatal chamber that never has been
reached. Phillips is single man :.
Lorber has a wife and four children.
There is intense excitement over the
painful disaster.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-30
Fifty Years Progress.

We have already called attention
to the fact that the present year is
also the jubilee year of the electric
telegraph, for Cooke and MILESTONE
made their first experiments on the
Northwestern railway Just fifty years
ago. How greatly has not this in
yentiOn promoted social and com.
mercial progress ? And to such enor-
nous proportions has Geographic
traffic now grown in this country
that in one week over six millions of
kilograms are sent out. The first
submarine cable was laid from Dover
to Claria in 1851, and now some 49,
600 of submarine cables are encircl-
ing the globe. The telephone, too,
has been introduced during the last
decade, and although Great Britain
has been comparatively slow to adopt
it, 1t is already a hourishing and
steadily progressing industry. The
other branches of electric railways,
have also made great progress. and
an important development of the
former industry is to be expected as
soon as the new electric lightning act
is passed. The first successful ocean
going steamer was built in July, in
1880, while now thousands of large
steamers intersect the ocean in all
directions. The screw propeller. in
vented by Capt. Ericsson, was in its
infancy 90 years ago. 1t has since
become the one mode of locomotion
for ocean going steamships. The in
yention of the locomotive preceded
only few years the coronation of
Queen Victoria, yet what changes
has it not brought throughout the
civilized world. Sir William Arm
strong's inventions of hydraulic was
another factor in the progress of in
dustry, while in ordinance, armor-
planting, war vessels, etc., the most
wonderful progress has been made.
How much the locomotive has &C.
complished in the last 80 years may
we'll be gathered from the fact that
100000 miles of railway have been
lain down during this time through
out the world. And what shall we
say of all the various machinery
which has since 1887 been created,
by which an enormous amount of
labor is saved in every industry, and
production cheapened in all direc-
tions? The record of inventions for
the last so years is truly magnifi-
cent one, and it is hardly to be con-
ceived that it can be eclipsed by the
progress of the coming so years, AL
though there will probably be dis
covered during that time some of
those things "between heaven and
earth" of which mankind do not
dream yet,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-30

This must be a hot summer. We
know it because there has been sew
eral cases ofsunstroke in or near Oak
land, one fatal. inst think of sun
strokes anywhere near a breezy
mountain summer resort CtAna6eT-
land NeaCs.
The only case of sunstroke in Gar
rett county. which has come to our
knowledge. was at Bloomington. at
the foot of the mountain. We sup
pose that the report of a sunstroke
here started from the fact that a man
who died from sunstroke in Pitts
burgh was brought here last week for
burial.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-30
Turning the RascaIS Out"

From the Boston Herald (Mugwump)
This is point of view in which
the result of the clamor that has been
raised about rascals in Office is emf
nently satisfactory to American pa
triots. We refer to the slight basis
upon which it is proved to be found
ed. There was a severe test in this
respect applied when the change of
administration took place two years
ago, The Republicans had been in
power twenty-four years. They had
held complete control during much
of that time, and in a portion of it
the Democratic minority had been so
feeble as to be of small consequence.
Naturally there were grave suspi-
cions on the one hand and serious
misgivings on the other as to the con-
dition into which they had brought
the offices of the country.
In the two years that the Demo.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-30
Business Barometer.

NEW YORK, July Pr. G.. Dun
& Co.'s weekly trade review says
With business progressing well
throughout the country, crop pros
poets excellent. iron production larg-
er than at any previous period, and
money in abundant supply. Wall
street is disturbed because a delusion
it has been chasing for months sud-
denly fades away and Mr.. Garrett
announces the failure of Mr.. Ives to
buy the Baltimore & Ohio. The in
cident illustrates the weakness of
Wall street as barometer. For four
months the street has been discount.
ing the beneficial results of this ex-
pected settlement, and all sorts OF
purchases, loans, commitments and
calculations have been based thereon.
But for these, the retention of the
Baltimore and Ohio by its old own
ers would disturb nobody. But now
litigation involving the value OF
many properties, directly and indi-
rectly has been commenced, and may
overcloud them.with uncertainty for
some time, and meanwhile no one
wants to buy a share in a law suit.
Wheat at 7S4 cents for No. red
winter in July is lower than it has
been before in that month for more
than forty years, and close to the
lowest price for that period in any
month. This is the direct result of a
speculation which drew many mil
lion bushels from farmers hands,
where cost of carrying was nothing,
into the hands of dealers who are
anxious to unload before new wheat
comes. The twenty million bushels
in few elevators are heavier than
fifty million bushels would be in
farmers bins. Small purchases from
farmers for some time to come are
probable, and the consequent delay
in the demand for money to use in
crop moving may possibly be help
full.
Prices generally are low, in spite
of many spectators. AS evidence of
the absorption of floating capital in
fixed forms, and its effects, it may be
stated that the same quantities of
articles representing nine-tenths of
the aggregate consumption of the
country, which could have been
bought year ago for 500, would
now cost only about 10000, and they
were not point higher in January
last. So small a change in prices
after an expansion of SEA, 900, 900 dur
ing the year in circulation. is surpris-
ing. Cotton is tending downward,
with liquidation following several
important failures, but goods are
comparatively scarce, and prices well
maintained. Woolens are as usual
unsatisfactory, foreign competition at
low prices combining with slack
demand for goods to discourage pro-
ducerS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-30
Prohibition in Kansas.

CHICAGO, July 19.-Gov. J'hn A.
Martin, of Kansas, writes to the
General Manager of the Associated
Press cOntradicting a dispach sent
from St. Joseph, Mo-, representing
that "the closing of the aloons in
Atchison, Kan, has cut off the most
profitable source of revenu, amount
ing to thousands of dolhrs a year,
and as result the city hiss not reve-
nue. to keep going;" that the police
force, with the exception of the
Marshal and one policeman, has been
suspended that the services Of the
firemen were to be DISPENSED with,
and that the gas and eectric lights
were to be shut off.
"This Dispatch" says Gov. Mar
tin, twas inspired by the whiskey
interest, and intended to create the
impression that an efficient city gov
eminent could not be maintained
without the revenue derived from
saloon licenses.n 1t is characterized
as false and misleading, as the gas
and electric lights and water supply
of Atchison have never been turned
off. Its fire department has been and
is continuously on duty. Its police
force has been largely reduced, but
has, in the absence of the saloons,
been ample to preserve the peace and
protect the property of its citizens.
"Atchison," continues the Cover
nor, abolished its saloons in the fall
of 1886. The whiskey interest said
this action would seriously injure the
business of the city. 1t has had no
such effect. Atchison is more pros
porous to-day than it has been for
many years past. Its wholesale trade
aggregated over S40,000,000 in 1885,
and during the first six months of
1887 this trade has increased fully SO
per cent. over that for the correspond
ing six months of 1856. All the
principal streets of the city are now
being paved, and more buildings are
now being erected in Atchison this
than during any previous year in its
history"
The Governor concludes "The
summoning up of the facts of the
census confute and confound those
who assert that the material pros
perity of any community is promo
ted by the presence of saloons. So
far as Kansas and all her cities and
towns are concerned, the reverse of
this assertion is true. The most won-
derful era of prosperity, of material,
moral and intellectual development
of growth in country, cities and
towns ever witnessed on the Ameri-
can continent has been illustrated in
Kansas during the six years since the
temperance amendment to our con-
stitution was adopted, and especially
during the past two years, the period
of its most complete enforcement"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-30

A Boston physician tells of case
of an attack of hay fever that was ar
rested by the patient breaking his
leg. Hay fever victims who go sev-
eral hundred miles from home to es-
cape the disease, should cut this out
and paste it on their handkerchiefs.
If breaking a leg should fail to effect
a cure in some cases, breaking the
neck would be certain to go right to
the spot. Beware of limitations.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-30

The election OF the coming year
may present curious experiences of
the success of the Socialistic candi-
dates. The Labor party, which has
been agitating for some months, will
put up that singular Socialist, Henry
George, who, short time ago, was
beaten in the election for the Mayor
ality of New YORK. The election Is
in the hands of the Irish voters who
are, for the most part. Catholics. It
is on this account that the council of
American bishops, which is to take
place at Baltimore next September,
has such great Importance. 1t is
already known that the council will
fix upon the relations to be establish.
ed between Knights of Labor and
the church.
The right of union will be recog-
nized, but boycotting and all other
violent means will be forbidden by
the church. Catholics will have the
right to join these secret labor So
cieties, but they will be obliged to
make known their by laws to their
confessor, upon the demand of the
latter. Nothing illustrates better
than this concession the gravity of
the social crisis now permeating the
life of the United States and which
may soon haye its counter movement
in Europe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-30

such course has been rewarded with
political success. Let every aspirant
do all the work or fighting of which
he is capable until the ticket is nomi-
mated, and then 60 to work for its
election.
We venture these suggestions at
this time in order that our readers
may have ample time to reflect upon
these matters affecting their interests,
and in order that they may know
whose fault 1t is if their favorites are
not nominated.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-30

Dyspepsia, palpitation OF the heart
and nervousness are among the dis
orders attributed 10 the use of strong
tea in excess. but the most remarka.
BILE effect seems to have been observe
ed in the case of a young girl report
ed by an English medical authority
to have had attacks exactly resem-
bling delirium tremens as result of
a habit of chewing tea-leayes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-30

To one who is living Alright, nc
death can be sudden and no place
unfavorabIe. One step and all roads
meet, Dying is the best part of life
to one who knows how to live worth.
lily. Death is as sweet as flowers are.
1t is as blessed as bird-singing in
spring. l never hear of the death Of
any one who is ready to die, that my
heart does not sing like harp. !
am sorry for those that are left be-
bind, but none for those gone before.
Anon.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-30

If you want to make a good imita-
ton monkey that will will please the
children, here are the directions :
Make a large rag doll. and on the
side of the head glue the half of a
cocoanut shell that has a good lmita-
ton face. Put on the head red.
knitted cap, or one made from red
flannel, so that it covers the top and
back of the rag head. Cover the
hands and feet with any kind of dark
brown cloth. Make a red flannel
jacket, trimmed with small gilt but.
tons, and black velvet pants. Dress
the doll in these clothes and see how
the little ones will like it,-Boston
Budget.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-30
SATURDAY, JULY 80, 1887.

Senator Jackson, of Wicomico Co.,
was nominated for Governor by the
Democratic State Convention We'd
nesdaY; Col. Baughman for Comp
trolIer, and Ex-Gov. Whyte for At
torney-General.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-30

Good temper, like a sunny day,
sheds brightness over everything.
1t is the sweetener of toll and the
soother of disquietude.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-30

He, who is most slow in making a
promises is the most faithful in the
performance Of it,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-30

A sorrowing saint is better than a
singing sinner,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-01-19

SOUTHWARK,
Standard Time,
18th Meridian

No. 8 has Pullman Buffet Sleeper New York
to Atlanta, Ca, and Montgomery, Ala, with
out change. via Harrisburg. Hagerstown. and
Roanoke; also Pullman Buffet Sleeper from
Washington 10 New Orleans via B. q 0. Rail-
road and Shenandoah Junction.
No | has Pullman Sleeper Washf ngtOn to
Memphis and Little Rock without change via
3. & o. Railroad and Shenandoah junction.
CONNECTIONS.
At Hagerstown, Md. with the Western Mary
lex, Emmittsburg. Gettysburg, Penmer
Waynesboro, Pa, and points on the Western
Maryland Railroad and branches.
With the Cumberland Valley Railroad to and
from Harrisburg, Carlisle. Shippensburg,
Chambersburg, Mercersburg, Martinsburg, and
points on the Cumberland Valley Railroad and
branches.
Also to and from Pittsburg and the West and
Northwest. and Baston, New York, Philadei-
phia, and the North and East.
At Shenandoah junction, W. Va, with Main
Line of Baltimore Ohio Railroad to and from
Washington and the West.
At Waynesboro junction, Va, with Chesa-
peake g. Ohio Railway to and from Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs and Richmond.
No. makes close conn ection at Waynesboro'
junction with G. o. Ry. West bound
trains. I
AT Loeb Laird, with Lexington Branch o
Richmond & Allegheny Railroad.
At Buchanan with Main Line of Richmond
& Allegheny Railroad.
At Roanoke, with Norfolk & Western Rail-
road.
STAGE CONNECTIONS.
At Boyce. for Wildwood and Winchester, Va.
At TrOutviile for FincaStie.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-01-19
E. G. VINCENT.
Post-offi ce Box 4. Stanton, Va.
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